A Brain for Numbers Quotes

“Honeybees possess amazing numerical skills that rival those of many vertebrates. Honeybees have a reputation of being insect geniuses: not only can they enumerate and order numbers, but they also possess elaborate working memory to ponder about upcoming decisions, understand abstract concepts such as 'sameness' and 'difference', and learn intricate skills from other bees. And they achieve all of this with fewer than one million neurons.”
― Andreas Nieder, A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct

“One of the key findings over the past decades is that our number faculty is deeply rooted in our biological ancestry, and not based on our ability to use language.”
― Andreas Nieder, A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct

“Life without numbers is inconceivable for us. How else would we count objects, tell time, calculate prices, and so on? Our scientifically and technically advanced culture simply would not exist without numbers.”
― Andreas Nieder, A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct

“The I-PFC extends between the longitudinal cerebral fissure that divides the two cerebral hemispheres and the lateral fissure below.
This region receives processed multimodal information and has been described as a place "where past and future meet" by associating memories from the past with future actions.”
― Andreas Nieder, A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct